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Replication, gene expression and particle production by a consensus Merkel Cell Polyomavirus (MCPyV) genome.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Neumann Friederike, Borchert Sophie, Schmidt Claudia, Reimer Rudolph, Hohenberg Heinrich, Fischer Nicole, Grundhoff Adam
Abstract excerpt
Merkel Cell Polyomavirus (MCPyV) genomes are clonally integrated in tumor tissues of approximately 85% of all Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) cases, a highly aggressive tumor of the skin which predominantly afflicts elderly and immunosuppressed patients. All integrated viral genomes recovered from MCC tissue or MCC cell lines harbor signature mutations in the early gene transcript encoding for the large T-Antigen...
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